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...with Smith out of office, Moses shifted most of his attention from Albany to New York. Fiorello La Guardia was mayor of the Depression-stricken city, and there was no lack of public works that needed building. With money from the New Deal's "alphabet" agencies, Moses went to work. By 1940, he had changed the city's face. Manhattan's West Side Highway, the Harlem River Drive, the Triborough, Verrazano, Throgs Neck and Bronx-Whitestone bridges, not to mention Riverside, Flushing and Van Cortlandt parks, are only a few of the things that eventually owed their...
Ever since 1947 when it was founded by conscience-stricken scientists who had helped create the atomic bomb, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has recorded the imminence of a nuclear holocaust with a "doomsday clock" on its cover. Two years ago, after the U.S. and U.S.S.R. signed their first nuclear arms limitation pact, the Bulletin's editors set back the clock to twelve minutes to midnight-the farthest it has ever been from that apocalyptic hour. Now the editors are no longer so optimistic. In the September issue, the clock's hands will be pushed forward...
...fierce pathetic face," Orwell writes, "he typifies for me the special atmosphere of that time. He is bound up with all my memories of that period of the war--the red flags in Barcelona, the gaunt trains full of shabby soldiers creeping to the front, the gray war-stricken towns further up the line, the muddy, ice-cold trenches in the mountains...
...nothing was known of its causes, though it was noted that in many cases it followed an attack of encephalitis, inflammation of the brain. Then, from 1916 to 1926, there came a worldwide epidemic of brain inflammation, caused by a virus and named encephalitis lethargica because the most severely stricken victims spent days or weeks almost comatose and immobile. Some of these patients soon developed full-blown cases of Parkinsonism, marked by alternations of involuntary movements and rigidity, a fixed gaze and a shuffling gait. Even after this encephalitis virus disappeared in 1931, the incidence of Parkinsonism continued to rise...
...brute force of the presidency is still astonishing. During Richard Nixon's absence in the Middle East, Washington almost subsided into a Southern city stricken with the last days of spring. Then he came back...